Dana Inkster

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Dana Inkster
Born
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Known forFilmmaker

Dana Inkster is a Canadian media artist and filmmaker. [1]

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Biography

Inkster grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. She focused on political studies during her undergraduate education at Queen's University, [1] [2] and has a Graduate Diploma in Communications Studies from Concordia University. [3] She currently lives and works in Lethbridge, Alberta [4] where she lives with her partner and their son. [5]

Artistic career

Inkster's work often experiments with narrative while exploring the complexities of identify, which stem in part, from her experiences as a black, queer, feminist. [1] Her first film, Welcome to Africville, was released in 1999. [3] In 2008, her film 24 Days in Brooks, which documents a 2005 labour strike at Lakeside Packers, [6] won an Alberta Motion Picture Industry Award for best production reflecting cultural diversity. [5] The film examines the lives of recent immigrant workers drawn to Brooks by numerous entry-level, unskilled labour jobs. [7]

Inkster has directed a television ad in a Canadian Race Relations Foundation anti-racism campaign. [8]

She has won the best Canadian female film director prize from the Toronto Images Film Festival. The Art of Autobiography was awarded Best Short or Medium-length Documentary by the Association of Quebec Cinema Critics. [2]

Filmography

References

  1. 1 2 3 McLeod, Dayna (2009). "Getting Messy and Complicated with Dana Inkster". nomorepotlucks.org. No More Potlucks. Archived from the original on June 19, 2021. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "The activists: Into the fire. no grumbling from the sidelines with this group, they are doers who jump in with both feet. look among their ranks for the leaders of tomorrow series: 100 to watch". Maclean's. ProQuest   218540358.
  3. 1 2 Anthem / Hymne: Perspectives on Home and Native Land. ABC Art Books Canada Distribution. 2008. ISBN   978-0770905194.
  4. ↑ "Walter Phillips Gallery to host exhibition on nationhood and identity". www.banffcentre.ca/. Banff Centre. February 11, 2008. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Bhogal, Preet (May 7, 2008). "Filmmaker Dana Inkster". dailyxtra.com/. Xtra! . Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  6. ↑ Kenney, Trevor (October 29, 2009). "Rethinking stereotypes". University of Lethbridge . Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  7. ↑ Ciccone, Carla (September 27, 2007). "Immigration influx". Fast Forward Weekly. Archived from the original on March 9, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Canadian Race Relations Foundation announces launch of national anti- racism campaign". Canada NewsWire. 21 Oct 1999. ProQuest   455080550.
  9. ↑ "24 Days in Brooks". National Film Board . Retrieved March 8, 2015.
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